# Soundalike Songs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 1, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268 "2003-05-01T01:31:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/soundalike-songs/172268/48 "2014-09-23T19:43:11Z")

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[Another recent thread on the same topic](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=705847). One of my posts there didn’t get a response, but the similarity was so striking I would like to post it again.

> [@THIS song sound just like THAT song.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-song-sound-just-like-that-song/672106/147):
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> Tito & Tarantula’s 1996 song “[After Dark](http://youtu.be/cG0qv9s0VNo)” bears a _remarkable_ resemblance to Pere Ubu’s 1978 song “[Over My Head](http://youtu.be/-4vyCsdnCoQ)”. Listen:
> 
> [ul]  
> [li]same key (C minor)[/li][li]same chords in the same sequence[/li][li]same rhythm[/li][li]same tempo[/li][li]melodic similarity[/li][li]lyric similarity[/li][/ul]
> 
> Compare:  
> AD: “In her eyes  
> A distant fire light  
> burns bright”
> 
> OMH: “In the gas her eyes are imagined  
> And what she sees cannot be detected”
> 
> AD: “In the dawn  
> I wake up to find  
> her gone”
> 
> OMH: “It’s pretty cute the way she tucks me in at dawn”
> 
> It would seem inescapable that Tito must have ripped off Ubu. Unless both songs are imitating an earlier model with that guitar rhythm, chords, and spooky mood.

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